Why there’s hope for Hadoop

Hadoop has been one of the most hyped technologies. Enterprise adoption is slow and a drop in the ocean (compared to DBMS), due to various reasons. But there are signs that the ecosystem is actually doing some work to address its weaknesses. Arun Chandrasekaran,...

‘Governance is the key to decentralization’

Traditionally, data and information systems have been centralized in the enterprise. But with the emergence of a concept called Shadow IT, this is increasingly becoming decentralized; more users are bypassing central IT and helping themselves to apps and deploying...